Process of making edible bar brittles



Oct. 27, 1931. E. MESSER 1,829,568

PROCESS OF MAKING EDIBLE BAR BRITTLES Filed Jan. 25, 1930 E wardl i sserA TTORNE Y.

INVENTOR.

Patented Oct. 27, 1931 PATEW? QFFICE EDWARD MESSER, F CINCINNATI, OHIOPROCESS OF MAKING EDIBLE BAR. BB-ITTLES Application filed January 25,1930. Serial No. 423,477.

My invention relates to novel chocolate candy and nut bars and to theprocess of making the same.

The object of my invention is to produce, in the form of bars, apalatable, fragile, edibleproduct composed of a mixture of chocolatecandy and hard candy flakes, either with or without broken nuts, andwhich has a consistency that readily yields (when being masticated) tothe action of the teeth, said product being sufiiciently firm to retainits shape when being handled and at the same time suflicientlyfragile tobe easily broken into blocks or units of the desired size for eating.

My invention consists of an article of of a mixture of chocolate candyand hard candy flakes, either with or without broken nuts, and itfurther consists in the process of making the same, as herein set forthand claimed.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a bar or cake of my edible chocolate candy barshowing it composed of easily separable blocks or units;

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of the bar taken on a planecorresponding to line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a mold used to form the bar shown inFig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section of the mold taken on a planecorresponding to line 4-.l of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a central vertical cross section of the machine used forsawing or breaking the hard candy into small flakes or chips;

Fig. 6 is a cross sectional view of the mold similar to Fig. 4, showingthe method in which the outside layer of chocolate is applied; and

Fig. 7 is a similar view after the chocolate and hard candy mixture isfilled within the mold.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention as illustrated, candy bar orcake 1 comprises an upper layer, shell or coating 2 of chocolate candywithin which is contained a body 3 of like chocolate candy havingembedded therein chips or flakes 4 of hard fiinty brittle candy, eitherwith or without nut fragments 5.

The preferred method of making these candy bars or cakes is as followsBoil a batch of hard candy containing sugar and corn syrup, either withor without nuts. When cooked to the proper consistency, spread thin on acooling slab and allow it to cool and harden. After it is set and crisp,it is broken into small flakes or chips with circular saws 6, as shownin Fig. 5. These saws are arranged opposite each other on shafts 7 andseveral saws may be thus mounted in slightly spaced apart relation oneach shaft. As the hard candy is passed through the hopper 8 betweenthese saws, it is ripped apart, making chips or flakes 4 of candy andnot fine powder.

The mold 9, preferably of the shape shown, but which may be of any otherdesired shape, is painted or coated on its inner surfaces by a brush 10(or otherwise) with a layer 2 of chocolate candy liquid. The flakes orchips 4 of hard candy or of hard candy and nut fragments 5, as the casemay be, are then mixed with and embedded in warm chocolate candy liquidof heavy consistency and filled into the mold upon the coating layer andlevelled off to the desired thickness, thus forming the body 3 of thebar. The mold thus filled is then put into a cold box (or other coldplace) and when the chocolate is cooled and firmly set the bars arereadily released therefrom by tapping one edge of the mold upon a tableor by tapping upon the back of the mold.

The object of painting or coating the interior of the mold withchocolate is to give the top of the finished candy bar a neaterappearance and smooth finish and to prevent any of the flakes or chipsof hard candy from being exposed on the top or side surfaces of the bar.

Chocolate candies have heretofore consisted of pieces of soft chocolatecandy or soft chocolate candy containing other soft candy embeddedtherein, but they melt too quickly in the mouth and do not providesatisfactory resistance to the action of the teeth. Hard candy has alsobeen made with whole nuts embedded therein but without being formed intoi small flakes or chips and mixed with chocolate liquid with a topcoating of chocolate thereover. The hard candy, either; with or "Butwhen the bars are" made 'inzaccordance" with my invention, with the hardcandy or candy and nuts broken" into flakes or chips 5 and. mixed withthe soft, pliable, yielding chocolate, it produces a bar containing"squares, or blocks+l2which are easily broken therefrom and by reasonof-their; consistency of smallh'ard flinty particles embedded in thesoft yielding chocol ate the eating of the candy is-relieved' from: theforegoing obj e'ction's and becomes very v pleasant and agreeable; v

lt has the further fadvantageof combining. the flavors and producing amuch more palat able edible product than: where the ingredicuts are usedseparately orfinthe other combinationsheretofore employed. V 7 If thechips 01; flakes of hardcandy were exposed to theair for a considerabletime they wouldbecome sticky and runny to such an extent as iZO-fOIZIllj a solid; mass, but by em beddingsaid chips or flakes of hardcandy in soft chocolatecandythey are protected from the air andmoistureand 'sufici'ently separated fIEQIH OIIB anotherwithin the chocolate barto retain-the hard flinty brittle consistency which is adesirablefeature of my invention. In other' words,-;my candy= bar is soformedthat each of its ingredients retains its original charactersticsuntilu sed and the combination ofihardyfinty particles in spaced apartrelationswithin the body of the soft chocolate portion; produces justthat combinationof elements which is-mostdesirable and when beingeatemwill 101; so quickly and readily melt in; the mouth. but each blockwill alford a much longer period of palatable mastication than.otherwise, 7

v My novel candy bars-"are preferably made rectangular in shape withintersecting, creases partly separating the bars into unitsor blocks 12,as shown. They are'th'us readily separable from each other forconvenience ineating themone at-a time.

NVhat I claim as ne w' and desire to secure byLetters Patent is: a v 1I 1. The herein described processwhich con sists in placing a layer ofwarm chocolate upon'amold-mixingtogether warm chocolateandhardrcandy-flakes,then-placing saidmixture in sa id moldupon saidlayer of chocolate, .'the ncoolingsaid mixture and then re moving-1it-from the mold whereby a fragile v edible productisproduced; a 2; :The'liereindescribed process which con= sists lIP PIa'Ol HgXQ, layer-rotwarm 1 chocolate candy upon, a mold, mixing together warm chocolatecandy liquid and flakes or brittles of hard flinty candy and brokennuts, then placing said mixture in said mold upon said layer ofchocolate candy, then cooling said ingredients and then removing it fromthe mold. v 7 a The herein described process which consists in placing alayer of warm chocolate candy of the consistency of heavy syrup upon amold,-immersing hard candy flakes in warm chocolatecandy syrup, thenplacing said mixture in saidmoldnipon said layer of chocolate candysyrup, then cooling said mixture and then removing itfrom the moldwhereby afragil'e, edible prcductisprod-uced.

a 4. The hereindescribedprocess of produc ing an edible candy bar whichconsisf'ts in painting a mold of any desired shape with lieavyliquidchocolate candy, zthenrfillingsaid mold with. liquid chocolate. candy;having chipsor flakesof hard embedded there;

7 in,1then' cooling saidand mixture to mp e. he'fini$h iek I a.

5. The herei described process of pro,- ducipg: an edible candyban whichconsists informing hardicandwwithior without nuts,

then breaking said har dfcandy into small;

h ps. a e he i n a dieh -p 1? flakes of hard candy with heavy liquidchocolate, then painting a mold of any desired shape with meltedchocolate candy, then'p lacing the mixture of liquid chocolate and chipsand flakes of hard candy within saiid mold, then cooling said mixture"and: mold whereuponvthe: bar of candy may,v be readily: re-

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